Since the goal of your first message is to continue the convo, leave the receiver wanting more (as opposed to already knowing too much)! While some people make the mistake of leading with a long list of questions on a range of topics, it’s best to just pick one detail you think is cool or something you’re curious about and stick with it to start. Messaging someone more than once without getting a reply is the quickest turn-off you can try.

I was going crazy at the time when we made this record, so I was having a lot of trouble and that's what was hard for me about it. Couple that with Anna, Elizabeth and Maria -- three women's names that often creep into a lot of the songwriter's lyrics -- and it's hard to argue he hasn't had a fruitful and successful dating life through the years. "I've just done a lot of things that, like ..." he says before gathering himself and starting over. But I hurt a lot of people and myself, you know, just being crazy.